Sometimes innovation simply is...

• listening

• not listening

• observing evidence

• ignoring "evidence"

• big ideas

• modest ideas

• diagnosing cause(s)

• diagnosing effect(s)

• leap frogging from effect to cause to effect to cause... to "aha!" ...or to fatigue

• seeing a solution as a problem

• seeing a problem as a solution

• asking

• not asking

• seeking understanding

• expression ...arising from all quarters, ...unrestrained and authentic, ...granted due respect and legitimacy

• discovering a framework or organizing principle

• a nuance or in the subtle

• a brain quake

• a brain tremor

• a brain nudge

• troubleshooting

• troublemaking

• flipping the problem

• flipping yourself

• modeling the problem with toys or unrelated objects

• a question among the answers

• an answer among the questions

• exchanging roles for a month

• choice

• no choice

• visualization

• reading the right book

• reading the "wrong" book

• browsing the news

• Googling

• building a juxtaposition

• a restraint

• receiving a hard kick

• providing a hard kick

• creating a mutually rewarding work role relationship

• temperance

• crafting a revealing 2 x 2 matrix

• more sleep/rest

• less sleep/rest

• waking up

• translating the problem into a drawing

• translating the problem into a metaphor

• translating the problem into an analogy

• translating the problem into a blank slate

• accepting nature's lessons

• reliance on your perspective

• embracing another's perspective

• an error or mistake

• a fortuitous accident

• skepticism

• paranoia

• imagining

• acquiring more information

• discarding information

• problem solving

• problem seeking

• believing

• response

• releasing or letting go

• holding tight

• electing the hard path

• electing the easy path

• envisioning being your most dread-filled competitor

• envisioning failure, and considering the reason(s)

• anticipation or prediction

• a complaint, grievance or concern

• genius

• ignorance

• jumping in

• getting away

• collaboration and discussion

• rigorous due diligence

• making a reliable plan

• leveraging experience

• leveraging inexperience

• contention and argument amidst roiling diversity

• confusion

• clarity

• criticism

• analysis

• synthesis

• an obstacle

• removing an obstacle

• honesty

• exploring reality from a different vantage

• good will

• stepping out

• stepping in

• thinking

• not thinking

• relaxing

• intensity

• seeing what is

• seeing what isn't

• requesting assistance

• rejecting assistance

• swapping places

• going for a walk

• staying in place

• starting

• quitting

• conflict

• peace

• battle

• compromise

• centering

• distributing

• extending permission

• refusing permission

• accepting permission

• violating permission

• restriction/restraint/resistance

• freedom

• why?

• why not?

• looking within

• looking from out

• tolerance

• intolerance

• combining

• separating

• renaming, or perhaps better: un-naming

• democracy

• leadership

• followership

• competition

• cooperation

• sketching a mind-map

• sketching a mind-map per Tony Buzan's actual instructions

• familiarity

• alien or strangeness

• singular focus

• multi-focus

• enabling a stream of consciousness

• serving

• being served

• propinquity

• isolation

• reluctance

• being oblivious

• exercising caution

• associating

• disassociating

• revealing by measurement

• realizing that measurement obscures

• one option

• no option

• too many options

• being constructive

• being destructive

• intuition

• being positive

• being negative

• a referral

• being referred or called upon

• jettisoning assumptions and prejudice

• dissatisfaction

• paranoia

• yes!

• no!

• maybe...

• getting out of the way

• getting in the way

• risk mitigation

• being absurd

• being grave

• being ridiculous

• empathy

• severity

• pragmatism

• fanaticism

• doubt

• fantasy

• whistle-blowing

• putting thoughts to paper

• extracting thoughts from paper

• dialog

• order

• chaos

• humility

• confidence

• provocation

• individual effort

• shared effort

• diverging

• converging

• resignation

• protest

• humor

• thought before action

• thought after action

• integration

• disintegration

• failure

• success

• necessity

• teaching

• learning

• noise

• silence

Danny

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Comments

[Sean Kitzmiller]

Thought provoking collection. I like. Reminds me of a favorite quote:

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but 'That's funny...' -Isaac Asimov.

You have to embrace ignorance and/or humility to say "That's funny..." rather than "There's another failure."